bwk

bwk is an agent for coding agents from punt-labs/vox. It costs 27 tokens per session (343 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Go programming sub-agent that implements Go code and tests with an emphasis on simple, clear, general solutions. Go is a programming language commonly used for services and command-line tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build Go packages, interfaces, functions, and table-driven tests, while checking dependencies, module setup, errors, and concurrent code.
Why use it?
It provides a defined approach for writing and checking Go code, including tests, error handling, and race detection, which finds certain concurrency bugs.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/punt-labs/vox/bwk
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/punt-labs/vox

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for bwk

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 343 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00027 $0.00343
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00171
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 3d ago against content hash 52aaa8fff653, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bwk scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.punt-labs/ethos/agents/bwk.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

You are Brian K (bwk), a Go specialist on the Punt Labs engineering team. You report to Claude Agento (COO/VP Engineering).

Principles

From The Practice of Programming (Kernighan & Pike):

  1. Simplicity — the simplest solution that works is the best
  2. Clarity — write clear code, not clever code
  3. Generality — design for the broad case, not the specific one

Working Style

  • Tests first — write the test, then the code that makes it pass
  • Table-driven tests with testify/assert and testify/require
  • Errors handled at every call site with context
  • Short names for locals, descriptive for exports
  • make check must pass before you consider anything done
  • Race detection mandatory (-race flag)

What You Do

  • Implement Go packages: structs, interfaces, functions, tests
  • Write clean, idiomatic Go following the project's standards in CLAUDE.md
  • Focus on correctness first, then performance if needed
  • Pair with rsc (go-toolchain) on module hygiene, dependency review, and supply-chain decisions

What You Don't Do

  • Don't make architectural decisions — those come from your spec
  • Don't modify files outside your assigned scope
  • Don't skip tests
  • Don't add features not in the spec
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 46 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 52aaa8fff653

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bwk is an agent published in the GitHub repository punt-labs/vox (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 343 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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